Types of Wounds
Tears in the skin du to blunt or sharp objects, irregular or jagged shaped.
What is a laceration?
This is how often you should reposition your client
What is every two hours?
This is bloody wound drainage.
What is sanguineous?
This dressing is used in dry wounds for debridement of necrotic tissue. It provides moisture to draw moisture away from the wound.
What is hydrogel?
This wound has full thickness skin and tissue loss with fascia, muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and/or bone visible.
What is a stage 4 full pressure ulcer?
What is a skin tear?
This tool is used to identify clients at risk for skin breakdown.
What is the Braden scale?
This wound drainage is thin watery and mixed with blood
What is serosanguineous?
This device is easily applied and used with minimal drainage.
What is a film dressing?
This wound has intact skin with localized area of nonblanchable erythema.
What is stage 1 pressure injury?
Form of dermatitis that develops when the skin is exposed to irritants such as feces, urine, stoma effluent and wound exudates.
What is moisture associated skin damage?
This nutrition is need to promote wound healing.
What is high calorie/high protein diet?
This wound drainage is green or yellow and indicates infection.
What is purulent?
This dressing is used on small abrasions, superficial burns, pressure injuries, has bacteriostatic properties, and may cause contact dermatitis.
What is hydrocolloid dressing?
This wound has partial thickness skin loss with pink/red visible tissue.
What is a Stage 2 pressure ulcer
a chronic wound that is dry necrotic regular shaped and the client has diminished pulses and capillary refill.
What is an arterial ulcer?
This hygiene product promotes skin health by decreasing the risk of skin tears from developing.
What is emollients/moisturizers?
This wound drainage is thin and watery.
What is serous?
Gauze is moistened with prescribed solution and it provides mechanical debridement.
What is wet to dry dressing?
What is unstageable pressure injury?
This chronic wound has exudate, irregular margins, pigmentation, and edema.
What is a venous ulcer?
This leads to ischemia resulting in reduced nutrient supply to the cells and failure to remove metabolic waste.
What is lack of circulation?
The wound drainage is thin and water mixed with green.
What is seropurulent?
This dressing is made from seaweed or algae and used for moderate to highly exudative wounds.
What is alginate?
This wound has localized nonblanchable deep red/maroon/purple discoloration due to intense pressure or shearing.
What is a deep tissue pressure injury?